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A French resistant fighter shortly after being arrested by the occupation administration in France, date unknown	A Jeep loaded with radio and telephone equipment being used as a forward command post for a US Army artillery division, Territory of Alaska, 1943

A PT boat patrolled off New Guinea, 1943	Abandoned German Marder II tank destroyers at Stalingrad, Russia, 1942-1943

American M2A4 light tanks at Guadalcanal, circa Aug 1942-1945	An intercept sheet of German radio transmission created for the cryptologists at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, 1940s

B-17E bomber 'Yankee Diddler' of 43rd Bomber Group, US 65th Bomber Squadron taking off from Jackson Field, Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1942-1943; note P-39 fighters in background	Bomb Damage Assessment photo of destroyed Ki-48 bombers at a Japanese airstrip in northern New Guinea, 1942-1943, photo 1 of 2

Bomb Damage Assessment photo of destroyed Ki-48 bombers at a Japanese airstrip in northern New Guinea, 1942-1943, photo 2 of 2; note open parachutes in upper center (bombs or supplies?)	Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle walks with WWI fighter Ace Eddie Rickenbacker and author Ernest Hemmingway during a tour of North African bases, this time visiting the 414th Bombardment Squadron in Tunisia, 1943

C-46 Commando being fueled for flight 'over the hump' from Chabua, India to Kunming, China, 1943. Note 3 blade props of early C-46 models	Captured resistance fighters, France, date unknown

Clothing of prisoners of Sachsenhausen concentration camp who had recently been killed, Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany, circa 1936-1945	Crewman pulls the propeller through on an F4U-1 Corsair of Marine Fighting Squadron 218 at Barakoma Airfield, Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, 1943. Note the general sandblasted look of the aircraft after long exposure to tropical winds and coral dust.

Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft flying over 'the hump' from Burma to China over the eastern Himalayas, 1942-1943	Dead Japanese soldiers and wrecked Daihatsu-class landing craft on Buna beach, New Guinea, 1943

Dongjiang Column communist Chinese guerrilla fighters firing from a ditch, Hong Kong or Guangdong Province in China, circa 1942-1945	Duty officers and WAAF plotters at RAF Fighter Command No. 10 Group Headquarters Operations Room, RAF Rudloe Manor (RAF Box), Corsham, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, 1943

F4F-4 Wildcat fighters of a Marine Fighting Squadron at rest on Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomons, 1942-43.	F6F Hellcat fighters going through launch procedures aboard the carrier Saratoga, off Gilbert Islands, early 1943.